OpEdNews.com
Original Content at
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dale_hil_061127_in_order_to_teach_2c_w.htm--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
November 28, 2006
In Order To Teach, We Must Impeach!!!!
By Dale Hill
... I finished John Nichols' book entitled, "The Genius of Impeachment." The Founders Cure for Royalism." So who hasn't heard the term, King George? Who hasn't cringed at Dick Cheney's know-it-all, my-way-or-the-highway attitude throughout this White House "occupation?" While our voters listlessly voted Post Traumatic Syndrome Disorderly, for a second term for the White House Royalists, Bush was talking about "political capital... Maybe that is why I haven't liked Dick Cheney and his sidekick, moron, from the get go.
Nichols spends the first half of his treatise about the history of and the genius of impeachment. It has only been used twice, but the threat of impeachment has molified many a trigger happy president. It is NOT a Constitutional new idea. It came from the British, to get rid of power holders, who thought they owned the power. I was amazed to find out that even Truman was threatened by impeachment. Clinton is in good company, and Nichols would probably have voted to impeach, since Clinton lied, even though, it wasn't worth the time and money spent on it.
Impeachment decisions come with a heavy mandate, and impeachments should be worthy of the events that bring them. And in that, Clinton's doesn't measure up and doesn't come close to the absolute mandate that is in store for President George Bush and Vice President Cheney. If impeachment is NOT pursued and achieved, then presidents in the future will tear off other pieces of the Constitution. The Constitution is a living, breathing document and when a president by-passes it by using signing statements or out-right ignoring its mandates, we absolutely MUST impeach.
Nichols describes and compares the process of impeachment of President Nixon and is quick to point out the mirror-like scenario of this administration to Nixon's. Both won their second term and had done things that absolutely deserved impeachment. Both have absolutely lied, covered-up, and distorted to cover up lawlessness in their offices. But with President Bush, his lies, cover-ups, and ineptitude has cost American lives, and with that fact, hands down, we, as a nation, must demand impeachment.
Leaking information to discredit someone who has caught the president in lies was substantive in both administrations. "Both in 1971 and 2003, the actions of these zealous presidential aides had dire results." (P 105) But by the end of the year, the president was revealed, "... to have authorized a program of warrantless wire tapping of phones of Americans that was so disrespectful of the Constitution," that Republican congressman from Texas Ron Paul to have had his faith shacken in Republicanism.
Even the Republicans MUST impeach, because, without it, there party will be shackled with the unlawfulness of the Bush presidency for decades. Read the book and you will know that if Theodore Roosevelt were in the Senate today, he most assuredly would vote for impeachment.
Authors Website: www.dalehill.us
Authors Bio: Is a 34 year retired educator with a Masters Degree in Counseling - a free-lance writer with articles in Spanish and English Guideposts, Mothering, Oklahoma Observer, Oklahoma Gazette, Westview, Oklahoma Reader, The Lookout, Christian Standard ... . The author has the largest number of published "letters" in the history of Time magazine and NEA Today.
Back
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
